Stub-file envelope



UNITED STATES PATENT l OEEICE.l

JOI-IN IV. CRUIKSHANK, OF TROY, OHIO.

STU B=F|LE ENVELOPE.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 396,074, dated January 15, 1889.

i Application tiled October 17, 1887. Serial No. 252,523. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN XV. CRUIKSHNK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, in the county of Miami and State of Ohio, have invented a cert-ain new and useful Improvement in Stub-File Envelopes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exa-ct description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specicz tion.

My invention relates to improvements inY stub-file envelopes, which consist of a wrapper to the side of the central portion of which is attached a stub of gum-paper, the use of which is to attach legal-cap or other papers so that they become a part of the said stubfile envelope.

The object is to permanently unite papers of similar import to a wrapper, so that a loss or misplacement is impossible without first tearing the stub. I attain the object by the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front view of the opcn file-envelope. Fig. 2 is a folded section of the same on the line Similar letters designate like parts throughout the several views.

A is a quadrangular piece of firm paper of size suitable for inclosing the usual folding of legal-cap paper, and is folded at the two dotted lines extending across the face. Near the ends are two holes, t, at both places, into which are tied elastic cords u u. These serve, by bringing the cords over the ends of the folded wrapper', to bind the parts. The arrangement of the elastic cords to the wrapper is a well-known device for this purpose. A

is the back portion of the wrapper, on which may be printed or written such matter as would indicate the contents of the envelope. The stub is formed of a series of strips of gum-paper, c, and alternating with narrower strips of thicker paper, d, and to the bottom of these is attached a broad strip, b, and these several parts are bound together by the paper tacks s. The bottom strip is glued or otherwise fastened to the wrapper near the fold to the right, and thus is completed the stubfile envelope. A

In use the paper to be preserved is attached to one of the strips of gum-paper by wetting the same, and other papers of similar import are attached as occasion may require. Thus a series` of papers or documents may be preserved in their true relation without disarrangement unless violence is done to the stub. An elastic cord or other means may be used to bind the wrapper about the attached papers.

I am aware that stubs having adhesive Haps have been in use, and I therefore only claim the stub-ile envelope as hereinafter set forth.

Having fully described my invention, what I. claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

As a new article of manufacture, a stub-file envelope comprising adhesive iiaps with intervening narrow strips of paper and the same attached to the envelope near one endthereof to hold and enfold legal-cap sheets, and elastic straps held in orifices in the back of said envelope to bind the contents thereof, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing' as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN \V. CRUIKSI-IANK.

IVitnesses:

A. H. VANCE, N. C. CLYDE. 

